New Review Posted: Moment of Silence

Daniel Weissenberger · 04-27-2005, 04:25 PM

I review Moment of Silence, and am taken in by its European flavour:

"Just a few minutes in, I was absolutely sure that Moment of Silence was a European game. It opens with a stunning cutscene that depicts a group of stormtroopers raiding a journalist's apartment and kidnapping him while his family looks on in horror. How does the main character react to this? Run out into the hallway, guns blazing? Climb out the window and work his way down a series of drainpipes and trellises to steal the SWAT team van so he can infiltrate their base? No, he watches the scene through a peep-hole and then, when the commotion has died down, he goes into the hallway and retrieves a teddy bear tossed aside during the struggle, then returns it to the crying child of the kidnapped reporter. So, yeah, right as the game begins, I'm fairly sure no North American developer was responsible for this."

You can read the rest of the review here.

EnduroGamer · 04-27-2005, 10:02 PM

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that depicts a group of stormtroopers raiding a journalist's apartment and kidnapping him

These guys?

North American developers have been making games with these guys in them for years. European, my ass.

Hypatia93 · 04-28-2005, 07:58 AM

Excellent review, Danny. I /so/ enjoy games with actual stories in them. (I have to admit, I was recently blown away by Jade Empire's twist. Swear to god. But then, I also had no clue about the final twist in KOTOR, either.

) Depsite the gameplay flaws, this one sounds like one I'd really dig.

Say, I have a suggestion for PC reviews (all PC reviews). Why don't you guys put up the minimum, recommended, and what you played on hardware? And then, for the higher end games, any problems you may foresee or have faced (god forbid) if your rig (or the minimum) wasn't really up to snuff. I don't currently have a PC at home, but I think this bit of information would be useful, especially to someone like me.